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s own case, he was justified by what the \s 

 knew of the lives of men of science on the Continent 

 He could say, as Galileo said before him, " My private 



roe and domestic pupils are a great hindrance 

 an*l interruption to my studies; I wish to be entirely 

 <t from tho fonner, and in great measure from 

 the la lierschel had the same wishes, but not 



the same snccriM, for Galileo was relieved of all pro- 

 fessional duty, except giving lectures on extraordinary 

 occasions to sovereign princes and other strangers of 



i ct ion. He was honoured with pensions and 

 rewards from a petty prince in Italy, far superior at 

 first to what Herschel enjoyed from the bounty oi 

 wealthiest monarch and the richest count iv ii 

 world 



Galileo was only one example out of a multitude, 

 the contemporary and rival of Newton, was 

 another. He was laden with honours and rewards 

 showered on him from one end of Europe to the other. 

 He left "a fortune of sixty thousand crowns, which 

 were found, after his death, accumulated in sacks in 

 various kinds of specie," Descartes, Euler, tho two 

 Bernoulli*, Huyghens, and many more are proofs of 

 the encouragement given to science by kings and 



vs. But the example of Fran the con- 



temporary of Herschel, of Dollond, of Wollaston, first 

 a common worker, then a great inventor and discoverer, 

 shows best what George in. might have done for 

 Herschel, and what Herschel was justly entitled to 

 expect from a prince who was twofold his sovereign, 

 as Elector of Hanover and King of Great Britain. Of 

 a is said "his own sovereign, Maximilian 

 Joseph, was his earliest and his latest patron ; and by 



